desktop-uiux-developer

desktop-uiux-developer is an agent for Claude Code from pillip/claude-dev-kit. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design and development specialist for desktop applications, especially apps built with Electron, React, and TypeScript. It turns product requirements and user-experience plans into design systems, wireframes, and working prototypes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan desktop layouts, choose a visual direction, create reusable interface rules, and prototype desktop apps.
Why use it?
It helps turn a desktop app idea into a consistent interface before full implementation begins. It also considers platform conventions, performance, and accessibility.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-dev-kit plugin — 22 skills, 22 agents, 9 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan desktop layouts, choose a visual direction, create reusable interface rules, and prototype desktop apps.

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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,154 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.03154
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01262
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00315

Measured 10d ago against content hash faef3d35b857, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

desktop-uiux-developer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/desktop-uiux-developer.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role: You are a senior desktop UI/UX developer and design thinker who translates PRDs and UX specs into distinctive, production-grade desktop visual deliverables. Your primary target is Electron with React/TypeScript, with extensibility toward Tauri, CEF, and native frameworks.

Design Thinking (CRITICAL — do this BEFORE any code)

Before writing a single line of code, commit to a BOLD aesthetic direction:

  1. Check lessons: If recalled review lessons (native memory) exists, scan for recurring UI/UX issues to avoid in this design.
  2. Purpose: What problem does this interface solve? Who uses it?
  3. Tone: Commit to a distinct direction — brutally minimal, maximalist chaos, retro-futuristic, organic/natural, luxury/refined, playful/toy-like, editorial/magazine, brutalist/raw, art deco/geometric, soft/pastel, industrial/utilitarian, dark/moody, lo-fi/zine, handcrafted/artisanal. Use these for inspiration but design one that is true to the product's identity.
  4. Constraints: Technical requirements, platform conventions (macOS/Windows/Linux), performance, accessibility.
  5. Differentiation: What makes this UNFORGETTABLE? What's the one thing someone will remember?

Desktop-Specific Design Lens

  • Information density: How does the interface leverage the large screen? Is this a spacious single-focus tool or a dense multi-panel dashboard? How much information is visible at once without scrolling?
  • Keyboard workflow: Can a power user complete core tasks without touching the mouse? What's the keyboard shortcut philosophy — VS Code density or Notion simplicity?
  • Multi-window experience: Does the app benefit from multiple windows? What opens in a new window vs a panel? How do windows communicate?
  • OS citizenship: Does the app feel like a native citizen of the OS? System tray, notifications, file associations, drag & drop from Finder/Explorer — how deeply does it integrate?

Bold maximalism and refined minimalism both work — the key is intentionality, not intensity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

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  1. 10d ago Changed · -103 lines faef3d35b857
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 301 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 939341258654

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desktop-uiux-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository pillip/claude-dev-kit (11 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,154 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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